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As manufacturers and researchers reach the limits of silicon’s physical and chemical properties, UVA Engineering’s Multifunctional Materials Integration (MMI) initiative seeks to find more advanced semiconductor materials. By Charlie Feigenoff greenwood@cstone.net Since the invention of the transistor 50 years ago, advances in computing have been swept along on a river of silicon. As the most

UVA Engineering Launches Multifunctional Materials Integration Initiative University of Virginia scientists and engineers have launched an initiative to reduce, reuse and recycle heat and energy and create new functionalities in many technologies that form the backbone of modern society. “Multifunctional materials integration,” an interdisciplinary initiative bringing together a team of more than 40 researchers from

UVA Engineering is celebrating three faculty members who have earned prestigious and selective National Science Foundation CAREER awards. Quanquan Gu, an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Computer Science and the Systems & Information Engineering departments, received his award for “Scaling up KnowledgeDiscovery in High-Dimensional Data via Nonconvex Statistical Optimization.” The abstract is

In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore noticed that the number of transistors per square inch of integrated circuit doubled roughly every two years. Moore’s Law posits that this trend would continue into the foreseeable future — and it has. Certainly the ability to hold a smartphone in the palm of your hand — in the

UVA Engineering is at a pivotal moment in history, because investment in STEM is critical to the future. With this vision, the school has launched an important effort to engage alumni and supporters in funding strategic priorities, such as the graduate education program and diversity.UVA Engineering is at a pivotal moment in history, because investment in STEM is critical to the future. With this vision, the school has launched an important effort to engage alumni and supporters in funding strategic priorities, such as the graduate education program and diversity.

John Scully and his students spend a lot of time thinking about what comes out of people’s kitchen faucets. Scully – who chairs the Materials Science and Engineering Department at UVA and co-directs, with Professor Robert Kelly, UVA’s Center for Electrochemical Science and Engineering – spent the summer working with undergraduate and graduate students exploring the water problems of Flint, Michigan, in an effort to get some scientific answers.